The Persons with Refugee Experience Education Project – Interprofessional (PREP IP) responds to the need for practicing rehabilitation professionals to develop key competencies to meet refugees’ unique health needs better. Ultimately this will contribute to their health and well-being, inclusion, social cohesion, and community diversity. The project focuses on the following:
- building the capacity of a transnational and transdisciplinary network of partners to support health professionals jointly
- developing open online courses and open educational resources to provide accessible, inclusive, and equitable services to refugees
- documenting in a case study this unique partnership for inclusion, capturing experiences and strategies in building partnerships across sectors, professional, cultural, and geographical boundaries
The PREP IP is a partnership project between five universities and two organizations providing services to refugees. The project will develop an open online course, an open book, a Photovoice Exhibition, and a case study about the partnership. The UVic-UCC team will be in charge of the Photovoice part of the project. Mirari Ochandorena-Acha and Ricard Castro-Prat of our group are collaborating on this project.
